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...your needs. But as he has reminded us so many times, McCain is not a saint. And he is now the Republican nominee for President, the anointed leader of the party establishment he has antagonized so often. He has a real chance to extend his public service to the Oval Office and an abiding conviction that these perilous times require his leadership. But getting there in a year when so much is stacked against the GOP may require him to play by rules that don't always conform to the code of honor to which he subscribes...
...There has got to be rich material for negative ads in there. But then again, people don't vote for or against the vice presidential nominees." Indeed, perhaps with his choice in mind, Obama last week underlined that he would be the one making foreign policy decisions in the Oval Office, while acknowledging he was looking for someone to challenge his thinking on the issues. Given Biden's verbose tendencies, he is sure to let Obama know what he thinks again and again and again...
...star of their generation. "You want to pick somebody who complements you and strengthens you," says Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois whom Obama consulted three weeks ago on a bus trip through Florida about the choice. "I'm glad that Joe will be sitting in the Oval Office working with Barack on the important decisions. He brings a wealth of experience...
...President. Obama was shocked, then, when a paparazzi shot of him emerging from the Pacific Ocean on one of his favorite Oahu beaches ended up in PEOPLE magazine. The episode added privacy concerns to his deliberations and gave him a taste of the fishbowl that is the Oval Office (as well as the campaign to get there...
...meetings with Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, comes at a time of renewed frustration with Islamabad's efforts to tame al-Qaeda and the Taliban in its wild North-West Frontier Province. A sample of what Gilani may hear when he steps into the Oval Office on Monday was on offer earlier this week. In the latest of a flurry of warnings, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that "more needs to be done" to choke off the flow of militants across the border from Pakistan. "We understand that it's difficult, we understand that...